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FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions

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1737 points pseudolus | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bilsbie ◴[16 Oct 24 15:11 UTC] No.41860014[source]▶
I wonder how this would work for gyms?

They should clean up their act anyway. If other customers are like me I’ve been putting off joining for over a year because they’re so scammy and I don’t want to get locked in.

I even went to sign up and walked out because the price ended up being double what they advertised with weird fees and the base plan not being useable once they explain it.

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jrajav ◴[16 Oct 24 15:27 UTC] No.41860216[source]▶
If you can sign up for the gym online, then you need to be able to cancel online. That's how this rule is meant to work for all kinds of merchants. Gyms would still be free to pull their usual car-salesman shenanigans on cancellation if they're willing to only take new subscriptions on location and not online, too.
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1. heavyset_go ◴[16 Oct 24 23:17 UTC] No.41864874[source]▶
Planet Fitness makes it easy to sign up online but you will have to journey to the to the ends of the Earth to cancel your subscription.
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2. LegitShady ◴[17 Oct 24 00:22 UTC] No.41865233[source]▶
print off the form, get it notarized, sprinkle it with essence of rose, put your signature, thumbprint, and a skin sample to prove your identity, sing songs to the machine god to empower its cancellation abilities, send through registered mail to an address antarctica, and follow up with form 2 and a similar process within one month.